CM Lab notes

Agenda for Saturday, August 4

TOMORROW (SUNDAY, AUGUST 5) WE WILL MEET IN THE MATH BUILDING ROOM 008 (THAT'S THE ONE WE'RE IN TODAY, THE BIG ONE) AT 1:00, NOT AT 1:30. IF YOU ARE LATE WE WILL VERY GRUMPY. YOU NEED TO COME WITH ALL OF YOUR EVIDENCE AND YOU NEED TO BE READY TO DO AFFIRMATIVE DISCLOSURE (IT SHOULD TAKE ABOUT 2 MINUTES). THAT MEANS THAT IF YOU ARE MAKING CHANGES TO YOUR 1AC, YOU NEED TO FIGURE THEM OUT IN ADVANCE AND SEND THEM TO KATHRYN TO GO ON THE WIKI OR TYPE AND PRINT 2 COPIES OF A NEW OUTLINE TO ATTACH TO YOUR DISCLOSURE SHEET.
Read and time 1ACs as a group
Discuss any changes to the 1ACs
Discuss any negative strategies we still need to go over
Anything we still need?
Talk about how to get ready for debates
Distribute files
Strategies

• Reparations - Debt relief CP with dependency bad and the development K and reparations bad cards OR EU CP with a DA and the ethics K (use ethics K to prove it's important to weigh the DA)
• China advantages (like impact turns to the China DA) - read lots of defense (and some turns) - relations not zero sum, plan not key, China is peacefully rising, cards from Hao's soft power defense (highlight/retag to talk about China specifically)
• Water structural violence advantage - non-US CPs obviously solve - make case takeouts (alternate causality, the impact is very small) - read cards from the ethics K to prove how you should weigh your DA
• Gender Aff (family planning aff) - read the regular family planning neg strategy; say the part of the plan about cross-cultural communication is not T, plan would be interpreted in a conservative manner that would maintain colonialism as their 1AC evidence says - there is no way it would be used for cross-cultural communication given the current administration, third world feminism K of cross-cultural communication
• Refugees (with a plan) - aid workers create biopolitical power hierarchies just like the state, have to solve the genocide first, locals and the Chad government would backlash, International CP and DA, read takeouts to refugee leadership (Haiti, North Korea, HIV exclusion)
• Refugees (without a plan) - CP to give aid to prove the state is sometimes legitimate, read AT Agamben - focus on state of exception reinforces sovereign power, focus on deconstructing sovereignty reemerges in different forms (neoliberalism)
• Zimbabwe - international actor CP and a DA, T-subsets, case turns - everything is conditional, the aff just masks conditions on aid, Mugabe is Hitler and the aff is supporting genocide (say even if the aff wins ethics, it's unethical to send money to a corrupt regime) - it's important to win that the money would go to the government, not NGOs or the people (there's a law that bans money to NGOs) - the only card that says they will accept is about food aid used to starve the population and only given to political supporters
• Sex workers - PIC out of sex workers that provide S&M services - kritik notions of domination and submission - inherently reinforce gender stereotypes and cause gender violence - dehumanization and extinction impacts - 2AC will probably say masochism is good (Deleuze and Guattari) - block in the file but it must be highlighted - can also do an international CP with a DA
• FGC - read takeouts to patriarchy (with alternate causalities) and solvency takeouts (the US empirically fails) - US isn't key so read an international CP and DA - also AT: fem IR and 3rd world feminism file (US-led feminist movements bad)
• Shawneeism - T and a modified version of the development K
• Infrastructure - China DA (especially because they're really military and their non-UQ card IS OUR UQ), T - public health is not military (also takes out the case) - be careful of no challengers with the China DA - there's still a cost to war - read cards from the water wars neg to take out the case (you can also read the K)
• Surveillance - security K (can read health care workers CP as the alt or just to prove the alt solves the case), bioterrorism is a hoax (there are also cards on this in other files - read your files), international CP and DA
• Traditional healers - AU CP and case (if they say object fiat, we say you treat africa as an object, that links to your case) - development kritik (participation links about integration with non-traditional medicine and can CP to increase without integration or say that's what the alt means)
• Solar box cookers - still no reason the US is key

Things to do to get prepared for tomorrow

• Make sure you are ready to defend 1 (or maybe 2) international CPs - write blocks to major 2AC answers (like the perm and theory arguments), highlight important cards, think about other possible aff answers
• Make sure you are ready to defend 1 primary and another secondary DA that is a net benefit to your non-US CP (like politics Iraq or farm bill, fiscal discipline, or aid tradeoff - China is a good NB too but be careful of the perm)
• It's a good idea to be ready to defend the development K (especially good against tricky K affs and also a good strategy against regular affs)
• Make sure you have ALL of your files and e-mail David and I if you do not
• Make sure you have at least read the index and flipped through all of your files so you know where things are - many files can be used effectively against a variety of affs in ways that are not immediately obvious
• For the aff, make sure you have filed all of your evidence IN ACCORDIONS/EXPANDO FILES, make sure you have read all of your evidence, and make sure you have found, looked through, and filed all of the random 2AC blocks or aff cards that were in the back of various files

Agenda for Friday, August 3

For tomorrow, bring printed out full-text 1ACs to read in lab
Supplemental aff assignments
Politics (India Deal) - Jordan, David
CIL - Hao
Country PICs - Jesse, Rebecca, and David
Consult Egypt - Egypt says no, US-Egypt relations not good, plan not key to US-Egypt relations - Ilias
CDC vs. DOD - which would do it, which should do it, AT: tradeoff DAs - Nick
AT: Japan DA, CP (especially new SS scenarios that are not part of the generic) - Ram
AT: Chaloupka, Kato (defenses of traditional nuclear activism) - Ben
AT: Heidegger (+ 2 cards to read to prove reparations is the opposite) - Nathan
AT: Gift K - Bala
AT: Gender K - Kyra
AT: Nietzsche - Rebecca
AT: Terror Talk (general terrorism impact defenses/takeouts) - Dexter
AT: Court DAs - answering activism and legitimacy - Jake
Stovepiping (disease focus bad) and answers - Stephen
Trade (http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/free-trade-protectionism.html and the Copley News Service) - Michael
Shawneeism Neg - Mindy

Talk about T against non-traditional affs
Talk about debating consultation counterplans

Agenda for Thursday, August 2

Survey the lab and see what people still want to work on - topics they want to cover by the end of lab
Talk about 1ACs
Talk about answering kritiks (nihilism, Heidegger)
Talk about topicality arguments for E-waste and write a block as a lab
Additional assignments
Disease focus (1 night) - we still need someone to work on this

Agenda for Wednesday, August 1

Talk about topicality arguments for IPR and write a block as a lab
More case clash drills (E-Waste, Surveillance)
Additional assignments
Disease focus (1 night) - we still need someone to work on this
Democracy (1 night) - Mindy
3rd world feminism - Amy (along with Nathan)
For tomorrow, re-write 1ACs and bring them into lab

Agenda for Tuesday, July 31

Talk about the practice rounds and what additional work we need
3 world feminism (AT gender K of IR) - Nathan
Speaking for others (just as an answer to the fistula narrative) - Ben
Ethics K/defense of DAs and consequentialism - Rebecca, Kyra, Ram
Defense of predictions (book reviews about Tetlock and the fox vs. the hedgehog) (1 night) - Dexter

Reparations/Shawnee-ism - Michael, Dexter (tomorrow)
-More case cards?
-Development K (people try to use health in a transformative way but it's coopted for war on terror discourse, etc.) with debt forgiveness as a CP
-Defense of DAs (intervening actors means no responsibility for history of slavery and racism)

Zimbabwe PIC (more evidence on unconditional aid goes to the government, ev that aid is always condition - selective conditionality) - Usual suspect
Soft power frontline and extensions (Brooks and Wohlforth, no challengers, no soft balancing) (1 person, 1 night) - Hao
Biz con answers/neg biz con work? - Jesse
More work on China DA (aff and neg) - Hao
AT: Emerging Diseases, human/animal transmission - Stephen
More IR K work (additional cards and blocks to specific aff answers) - Ilias
States CP (AT: preemption, states can give aid, solves obligation) - Nick
Politics DA (farm bill and a good defense of trade wars bad, AT other scenarios like SK FTA, updated UQ, LINKS FOR THINGS WE DON'T YET HAVE) - Bala
Reg neg? - David (regulatory negotiation, negotiated rulemaking)
Impacts (1 person, 1 night) - Mindy
AT: Nordic CP (IPR) (1 person, 1 night) - Amy

Work for later:
Stovepiping (disease focus bad) (1 person, 1 night)

Agenda for Saturday, July 28

Disclosure day!
Teams debating:
Fistula - Amy and Kyra
IPR - Bala and Dexter, Jordan and Jesse, Rebecca and Stephen
Reparations - Bala and Dexter
Sex workers - Ben and Ram
"Shawneeism" - Nick and Mindy
Solar Box Cookers - Ilias and Jake
Surveillance - Ben and Ram, Jordan and Jesse
Traditional Healers - Ilias and Jake
Water - David and Hao, Nathan and Michael, Rebecca and Stephen
Zimbabwe - Amy and Kyra, David and Hao, Nathan and Michael, Nick and Mindy

Aff arguments we are debating

E-Waste
Specifying funding is extra-topical
Shift to other places
Ratify Basel CP
Biz con
Extra T - polluter pays isn't health assistance

Surveillance
T - not PH because don't increase mental vitality
Consult Congress

IPR
Effects T
K of ethics - Badiou
Innovation
Stovepiping - focus on one disease bad
Farm bill politics - famine impact
Biz con
Free trade DA
Buy drugs and send them to Africa CP (+ pull out of WTO)
Plan flaw - just allows use of subject matter, not production
Reverse brain drain
American exceptionalism
Objectivism
Nordic countries CP - they also fiat the WTO

Agenda for Saturday, July 28

Return of the efficiency police - more banned words
Do the last 2 clash drills, have Jake give a 1AR, and randomly select 2-3 2NRs
Review the disclosure process for tomorrow
Read more 1NCs and talk about 1NC strategy
Review supplemental aff/neg assignments
Reminder: supplemental aff/neg assignments due Sunday at the BEGINNING of lab

Agenda for Friday, July 27

Return of the efficiency police - banned words
Talk briefly about the 2NR
Do the last clash drill, have Jake give a 1AR, and randomly select 2-3 2NRs
Review the disclosure process for tomorrow
Talk about strategies for cases we haven't written negs to
Read 1NCs and talk about 1NC strategy
Supplemental aff assignments
Reminder: turn in revised blocks from clash drills in our boxes TONIGHT by room check; come Sunday ready for aff/neg disclosure

Agenda for Thursday, July 26

Talk about the 2NC and 1NR
Talk about debating the case
Do another clash drill
Talk about the 1AR, using the clash drill as an example
Do the rest of the clash drills
Read 1NCs and talk about strategic 1NCs

Agenda for Wednesday, July 25

Make sure we have case frontlines for all cases our lab has written except doctors
Do DA/CP/K clash drills
Talk about extending DAs, CPs, kritiks in the block
If there is time left over, talk about the case frontlines
Distribute the rest of the evidence
Release pairings for intra-lab debates and tell students disclosure deadlines

Agenda for Tuesday, July 24

Generic Clash Drills (assign 2AC's, Neg Block)
When Things Are Due
Talk about case negs/assignments
2AC
How to debate the case - How to pick arguments, how much time to spend, etc.
How to debate CP's - Debating a solvency deficit
How to debate disads - resolving and comparing arguments, impact calculus
How to debate kritiks - "K Turns Case," "K Comes First," "Impact OV," "Link OV."

Agenda for Monday, July 23

Collect all affs and turn them in to be copied
Ask students to turn in partner preferences
Discuss generics and which need to be re-worked
Turn in generics copy form
Discuss assignments for the next wave of research
Vote on assignments for the lab to research
Give students research assignments

Agenda for Sunday, July 22

No lab today - affs are due tomorrow

Agenda for Saturday, July 21

Collect and post revised 1ACs to the wiki
Collect smoking and FGM aff cards and copy them for students who want a copy
Collect revised topicality clash drill blocks and turn them in to be copied
Change aff deadline to Monday
Talk about 1ACs and necessary changes
Write plans for all of the affs

Agenda for Friday, July 20

Do topicality clash drills
Talk about flowing
Talk about writing blocks, efficiency
Talk about how to revise the clash drills
Talk about the oil aff and the FGM aff
Remind students of upcoming deadlines

Agenda for Thursday, July 19

Remind students of clash drills due tomorrow
Collect and read 1ACs
-Discuss shortcomings and areas for further research
-Discuss strategic 1AC writing
-Decide if any affs need to be eliminated and if their researchers need to be reassigned
-Discuss changes for to make for the next versions of all of the 1ACs

Agenda for Wednesday, July 18

Collect topicality briefs and turn in to be copied
-Discuss any problems with briefing

Collect a carded article from each student who hasn't already given us one
-Discuss the card cutting process
-Clear brackets around the top and bottom of each card to show where it starts and ends
-Page number(s) by the bottom bracket to make processing easier
-A short label by the side of the card to make sorting and briefing easier
-Star important cards that may end up in the 1AC or 1NC
-Err on the side of carding too much rather than too little - we can always throw away bad cards later!

Assign topicality clash drills
-Talk about the theory of topicality and debating topicality
-Talk about writing 1NC shells, 2AC blocks, and 2NC/1NR blocks
-Topicality violations to include:
1. Substantial means big (vs. e-waste or FGC)
2. Assistance means giving money/funding/something positive (vs. e-waste)
3. Effects topicality (vs. IPR or surveillance)
4. Public health means prevention not treatment (vs. doctors or IPR)
5. Subsets - must be all of Sub-Saharan Africa (vs. something)
6. Increase implies preexisting (vs. e-waste or something else like family planning)

Agenda for Tuesday, July 17

Talk about briefing evidence
-Assign Topicality briefing (due Wednesday at the beginning of lab)

Address research questions
-Discuss "research diaries"
-Ask each group about their most effective search terms and databases used

Additional research tips
-The importance of "home run" searches (like "public health assistance" as a phrase and smoking)
-Cycling through keywords and similar search terms

Map out key affirmative arguments we need to be able to prove
-Discuss which we can already prove and which need more work
-Discuss major neg arguments and answers we need

Review carded articles and talk about cutting cards
If there is time remaining, talk about the theory of topicality to prepare for clash drills

Agenda for Monday, July 16

Introductions
-Discuss Lab Goals and Rules - No Computers - Notebooks
-Remind Students to Set Up Blitz Accounts and Blitz David and Kathryn

Assign Students to Generics

Brainstorm and Vote On Affirmative Ideas
-Assign Students to Affirmatives

Discuss the Process of Research
1. Use our list of helpful resources for guidance
2. Use books, especially in the institute library
3. Brainstorm search terms for affirmative groups
4. Keep a "Research Diary" - record resources and search terms because we will ask about it in lab!
5. Chase footnotes, references, and similar articles
6. Refine search terms based on previous research
7. Move from general to targeted searches
8. If stuck, ask library staff for help or e-mail Kathryn or David

Assign Topicality Definition and Briefing Assignments
-If Time Permits, Discuss Topicality